WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emiliano Zapata, Foundation For Ancient Research And Mormon Studies, Heteronormativity

• School: UTM
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS200Y5
• Professor: Joan Simalchik

Document Summary

Late assignments 1% per day will be taken off the nal total course grade: must bring in a hard copy of assignments to class (lecture not tutorial) Text themes: concepts and practice of intersectionality, gendering and queering women"s studies. Indigenizing and decolonizing women"s studies: globalizing, internationalizing, and transnationalizing women"s studies, author"s challenges, conversations, self re ection, speak up. Feminist theories: uses self-re exivity, evaluates how we think, speak & act, sees positions of power and privilege, incorporates diversity, is plural: theories. Feminist epistemology: theory of knowledge vs. partial knowledge. Innate: fixed, unchanging, universal in time, space, & history, stereotypes around groups of people. !2: de ne the context, specify social, cultural, historical situation, conditions not xed, but uid bell hooks, not anti-men, but against sexism/patriarchy, for gender justice, not a lifestyle , male bene ts come at a price .